Making Strides
It hasn’t been too long since his 2 year general update, but Nicholas has made so many strides in his language since his birthday that I wanted to note them. He seems to have improved so much in such a short time. We can actually have fairly coherent conversations with him. I swear he does something new every day. It is so cool!
- He is saying things like “where Zoë is” and “there she is!” all the time. ”Is” is a new addition to his vocabulary.
- He is regularly using “I” in sentences to express his wants.
- He is saying his own name! This may not seem like a big deal, but he has referred to himself as Bubba for as long as we can remember. That is his nickname but we don’t want him going to school telling the teachers that his name is Bubba. Anyways, I pointed to a picture of him today and asked him who that was, to which he replied “Nih-s!”. Granted its not that close to Nicholas but its not Bubba! We think he even referred to himself as “me” tonight too.
- He’s repeating us more often which is so cool! Still not “love you” but we keep trying!
- His enunciation is improving everyday. He usually calls Thomas the Tank Engine “dom”. But the other day he added an “as” making it “domas”.
- He is learning so many letters! I think he can recognize all of them, but definitely knows certain ones better than others. He can even tell you a word that starts with a certain letter when you point to it. I.e., if you show him an “M”, he will say “M. Mama!”.
- He can count up to 2 objects. He starts over after 2 (1 bus, 2 bus, 1 bus) and seems upset when we suggest going on to 3. Maybe when he turns 3 he’ll be more open to the idea.
- He is really getting to know his colors too. About 95% of the time if you ask him to point to a certain color he will get it correct, but he doesn’t always say the color when you just ask “what color is __?”. But he is getting better with that. Especially if the object in question is orange. He will always tell you when something is orange.
We really are so proud of how far he’s come and just know he’ll keep learning and growing!